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Sunday, September 28, 2014

‘The 50 Year Argument’: A celebration of words that mattered — and still do

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s fond documentary “The 50 Year Argument” (airing Monday night on HBO) looks back on five decades of the venerable New York Review of Books, a twice-monthly journal of reportage, analysis and, yes, very long book reviews. The film is notably and happily absent some usual wails of agony; unlike most documentaries about journalistic enterprises, it doesn’t spend time chronicling the demise of the printed word.


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